Cops with tainted record will not get field posting

Punjab Police Inspector-General (IG) Sardar Ali Khan has issued a new order for field posting of all personnel including officers in the police department.

The order underlines honesty, good reputation, untainted track record and professionalism as the main criteria for a field posting.

Police officials with tainted and blight records and facing departmental inquiries or convictions will not be given field posting.

A senior police officer said that the IG’s newly-issued order for field deployment demanded that all police officers from district chiefs to head constables at police stations must meet the new criteria.

“Any police officer in the field who has been convicted in any previous case will be immediately suspended and transferred from the field. He will be able to return to his field of posting after proving his innocence at the relevant forum,” the officer said.

He said that police officers who have been convicted in departmental inquiries will not get field postings, while all officials who have received major punishments in the last two years will also stand ineligible for field posting.

Additionally, Station House Officers (SHOs) will not be deployed in their respective home divisions and officials who have remained on the same post for five years will not be re-appointed to the same designation.

The posting of an SHO within three months of appointment cannot be changed. If inevitable, the Regional Police Officer will be requested to look into the matter as the authority to do so rests with him.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 1^st, 2022.